Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
Street posters allowed you to have the last word. If you put them up in your neighborhood, you were speaking to your neighbor.
By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork.
Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy.
The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.
There's the fact that animation is extremely time-consuming, tedious, labor-intensive, and therefore, extremely expensive as an art form to really do it right, to really do full animation.
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.
Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests.
Many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue.
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.